Under is a calendar of theater opening* in February, together with a single Broadway present — a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Yr Day. However a brand new play by Shanley can also be opening the day earlier than, Off-Broadway — of many tantalizing choices, together with new marathon theater live performance from the group behind the once-in-a-lifetime A 24-Decade Historical past of Common Music, a collaboration between two beloved avant-garde theater corporations a technology aside; a posthumous premiere of the final play by Tina Howe; a play about campus politics from a Jewish perspective; a play from the Russian invasion from Ukrainian perspective, and one other from the Russian perspective (form of; it’s a satire.) These final two performs switched platforms; the Russian one was livestreamed through the pandemic; now it’s being introduced in particular person; the Ukrainian one was in particular person; now it’s being livestreamed.
The calendar is organized chronologically by opening date*, or first efficiency, however we should think about the dates topic to vary, as a result of, sure, COVID-19 continues to be round, and unpredictable.
Every title under is linked to a related web site.
Colour key: Broadway: Crimson 🟥. Off Broadway: Blue 🟦. Off Off Broadway: Inexperienced 🟩.
Digital or Hybrid Theater: Yellow 🟨 Theater competition: Orange 🟧. Immersive: Silver ⬜️ .
Puppetry: Brown 🟫 Opera: Purple🟪
February 1
Jonah (Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theater)
Gabby Beans (The Pores and skin of Our Enamel) performs a scholarship pupil who falls for a seemingly excellent classmate at her boarding faculty in a twisty coming-of-age story by Rachel Bonds.
Jan 11 – March 10
February 6
🟦Bark of Tens of millions (BAM)
A four-hour rock opera meditation on queerness by the group that produced the 24-hour “24 Decade Historical past of Common Music.” This comparatively mini marathon will function 55 unique songs by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray and a bevy of costumes by Machine Dazzle,
February 5 – 10
🟦The Following Night (PACNYC)
A collaboration between two theater-making {couples} a technology aside: fo600 Highwaymen (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone) for Speaking Band. Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimetan intimate portrait of 4 artists set towards the panorama of New York, a metropolis of perpetual loss and renewal.
Feb 1 -18
February 8
🟦Russian Troll Farm: A Office Comedy (Winery)
Sarah Gancher’s scary satire is impressed by the real-life trolls of Russia’s Web Analysis Company, whose job was to govern social media with a view to sabotage the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. One of many comedian conceits is that the employees deal with it like every other job, with standard workplace dynamics and petty intrigue. Christine Lahti is likely one of the 5 solid members this in-person model of probably the greatest digital theater performs I noticed through the pandemic.
January 25 – February 25
🟦Oh, Mary (Lucille Lortel Theater)
A darkish comedy written and starring Cole Escola as a depressing, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln within the weeks main as much as Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
January 26 – March 24
February 9
🟨My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion (Wilma Theater)
Playwright Sasha Denisova’s 82-year-old mom has lived in Kyiv her entire life. When Russia invades Ukraine in 2022, Sasha copes along with her fears by imagining her mom in more and more fantastical conditions: strategizing with President Zelenskyy, putting Russian drones with jars of pickles, and even debating with God. Wilma Tehater is in Philadelphia, however New York theatergoers can see it livestreamed from February 9 – 11.
February 11
🟦Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet (Greenwich Home Theater)
January 25-March 10
February 13
🟦Between Two Knees (PAC NYC)
The play facilities on one household’s story of affection, loss, and resilience spanning the eight many years between the 1890 bloodbath at Wounded Knee, and the American Indian Motion occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. The present is created by the 1491s, an intertribal Indigenous sketch comedy troupe whose founding member Sterlin Harjo is one-half the duo that created one in all my favourite current TV sequence, “Reservation Canines.”
February 3 – 24
🟦The Apiary (Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater)
On this play written by Kate Douglas with a solid that features Taylor Schilling, it’s 22 years sooner or later, tand wo lab assistants hatch a plan that would change the world. All they want are a couple of volunteers.
Jan 31 – Feb 25
February 14
🟩The place Ladies Go (Tent at HERE)
The late Tina Howe’s final play, comprised of three one-acts for a various solid of ladies of assorted ages. It tracks the journey of a lately widowed New Yorker
Feb 9 – 25
🟦Warrior Sisters of Wu (Pan Asian at A.R.T/New York Theatres)
Tailored from the basic Chinese language epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms and impressed, partly, by Pleasure and Prejudice, the play follows the romantic exploits and comedian misadventures of two younger {couples}, pitting two sturdy feminine warriors towards two high-ranking navy males. T
Feb 7 – Mar 10.
🟩On Set With Theda Bara (Transport Group at The Brick)
David Greenspan stars in Joey Merlo’s one-person play a couple of genderqueer teen who goes lacking and their homosexual detective father coming face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara, the real-life vamp and silent movie star of the 1910s.Feb 6 – March 9
🟩Doing Alright (Soho Playhouse)
Nicole Travolta’s solo present about her life as a compulsive shopper who freed herself from debt and disgrace and the load of a well-known final title (John is her uncle) by a weird, real-life journey by way of the world of spray tanning.
Feb 14-24
February 19
🟦5, the Parody Musical (Theater 555)
A musical that used “Six” about King Henrys wives, to inform the story of the ladies linked to our disgraced forty fifth president.
Feb 15 – March 10
February 20
🟦Sundown Child (Signature Theater)
A revival of the play by Dominique Morisseau a couple of Black revolutionary’s fraught reunion together with his grownup daughter
Jan 30 – March 10
February 21
🎶Jelly’s Final Jam (Encores at NY Metropolis Middle)
Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango and Leslie Uggams are among the many performers on this live performance model of a musical exploring the legacy of jazz pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton’. Written by George C Wolfe, directed by Robert O’Hara.
Feb 21 – March 3
February 22
🟦A Signal of the Occasions (York at New World Phases)
A brand new musical that includes the Nineteen Sixties pop hits of Petula Clark, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, reminiscent of Downtown,” “Gimme Some Lovin’,” “Rescue Me,” and “I Know A Place,” threaded by way of a narrative about a younger photographer in 1965 making an attempt to make her approach amid the altering occasions that outlined an period.
Feb 7 – June 2
February 25
🟦The Hunt (St Ann’s Warehouse)
Tailored from the 2012 film Jagten, the play options Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Recreation of Thrones) making his U.S. theater debut in a narrative set in a rural looking group that goes mad when a instructor is accused of misconduct by a 6-year-old youngster.
February 16 – March 17
February 26
🟦Seven Yr Disappear (New Group at Signature)
Cynthia Nixon performs a celebrated efficiency artist who vanishes for seven years—then reappears simply as mysteriously with a giant request for her son, performed by Taylor Trensch (Pricey Evan Hansen)—in a play byJordan Seavey (Homos, or Everybody in America). Scott Elliott directs
February 6 – March 24
February 27
🟦The Ally (Public Theater
When faculty professor Asaf (Josh Radnor) is requested by a pupil to signal a social justice manifesto, what appears at first like a easy alternative as an alternative embroils him in an more and more advanced net of conflicting agendas that problem his allegiances as a progressive, a husband, an artist, an instructional, an American, an atheist, and a Jew.
Feb 15 – March 10
February 28
🟦Brooklyn Laundry (MTC at New York Metropolis Middle)
John Patrick Shanley’s newest play, which he directs himself, tells the story of three sisters and the proprietor of their native laundromat, starring Cecily Sturdy, David Zayas, Florencia Lozano, Andrea Syglowski
February 6 – March 31
February 29
🟥Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout’s American Airways Theatre)
The primary Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play about Sister Aloysius, the principal of a Catholic faculty within the Bronx, who suspects an improper relationship between the charismatic priest Father Flynn and a pupil. Starring Tyne Daly, Liev Schreiber, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Zoe Kazan
February 2 — April 14
I additionally put collectively a Spring Preview of ten reveals I don’t need to miss (seven of that are opening after February.)
*Opening Night time
This number of performs on this month is organized chronologically by opening night time, however contains the dates when a present’s run begins and ends (when accessible.)
Opening night time is normally not the identical as the primary efficiency on Broadway and Off-Broadway. There may be normally a “preview interval” that may final days or perhaps weeks, generally months. However skilled evaluations are forbidden from being revealed till opening night time, which is why I set up this calendar by opening night time (when it exists and after I can discover it) reasonably than first efficiency, as a technique to help the persevering with relevance of theater reviewing. (Reveals that start previews in February however don’t formally open till March will probably be featured in subsequent monh’s calendarwee.) Take a look at my essay: Broadway Opening Night time. What It Means. How It’s Modified. 7 Details to Clear Urp The Confusion and Crystallize the Outrage.
What Is Broadway 🟥, Off Broadway 🟦 and Off-Off Broadway🟩?
Off-Broadway theaters, by definition, have anyplace from 100 to 499 seats. If a theater has extra seats than that, it’s a Broadway home. If it has fewer, it’s Off-Off Broadway. (There’s a extra refined definition, having to do with contracts, and extra elaborate distinctions, having to do with ticket costs, quantity and site of theaters, size of runs, willingness to take inventive dangers, and so on.)
(Lincoln Middle has separate Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theaters. A number of of the town’s performing arts facilities, reminiscent of The Shed, Little Island, Park Avenue Armory, NYU Skirball, and now PAC NYC on the World Commerce Middle web site technically exist outdoors Broadway/Off-Broadway/Off-Off Broadway classifications; I listing them as Off-Broadway, despite the fact that most have greater than 500 seats.)
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